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OverviewThis text examines the ideological poetics and the rhetoric of power in the Soviet Union during the 1920s, a period of anxiety over the historical legitimacy of Soviet ideology and Bolshevik power. Drawing on a wide range of sources - Party Congress transcripts, the classics of early Soviet literature, sex education pamphlets, the cinema, crime reports and early Soviet ventures into popular science - the author seeks to explain the period's preoccupations with crime, disease and, especially, sex. He devotes special care to exploring the role of narrative in authoritative political texts. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eric NaimanPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 19.70cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780691026251ISBN 10: 0691026254 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 26 July 1999 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Language: English Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Note on Transliteration, Citation, and Translation xi INTRODUCTION 3 Menstruation and a New Pair of Glasses 3 Approaching NEP: Ideological Anxieties and the Unarmed Eye 5 Utopia and Its Infections 12 Sacrificing Culture / Reading Ideology 16 Things to Come 25 CHAPTER ONE The Creation of the Collective Body 27 Utopia, Misogyny, and the Russian Philosophical Tradition 27 The Signification of Sex 45 Fantasies of the War Communist Body 57 CHAPTER TWO Let Them Penetrate! : Strategies against Dismemberment 79 CHAPTER THREE The Discourse of Castration 124 CHAPTER FOUR Behind the Red Door: An Introduction to NEP Gothic 148 CHAPTER FIVE NEP as Female Complaint (I): The Tragedy of Woman 181 CHAPTER SIX NEP as Female Complaint (II): Revolutionary Anorexia 208 CHAPTER SEVEN The Case of Chubarov Alley: Collective Rape and Utopian Desire 250 The Facts of the Case 250 The Corruption of the Innocent 257 The Corruption of the Experienced 263 Ideological Resonance 266 CONCLUSION 289 Index 301ReviewsNaiman has written an original, thought-provoking, and well-researched book that is destined to become a classic study of the role of sex, crime, and disease in the ideological discourse that took place in the first decade of Soviet power... Few can deny the insightful, ground-breaking quality of Sex in Public. -- Ronald D. LeBlanc Slavic and East European Journal This is a big book--large in its scope and ambitions. Naiman offers a bold reassessment of early Soviet ideology... This is not a book for the faint-hearted, since the graphic descriptions of real and imagined sex crimes can sometimes make for difficult reading. Like a prosecutor preparing for a case, Naiman uses this mass of evidence to make a dense argument for the centrality of sex to fears about the future of the revolution... Nowhere has [the New Economic Policy] been depicted in such dark terms as in this book. -- Lynn Mally Europe-Asia Studies Naiman has written an original, thought-provoking, and well-researched book that is destined to become a classic study of the role of sex, crime, and disease in the ideological discourse that took place in the first decade of Soviet power... Few can deny the insightful, ground-breaking quality of Sex in Public. -- Ronald D. LeBlanc, Slavic and East European Journal This is a big book--large in its scope and ambitions. Naiman offers a bold reassessment of early Soviet ideology... This is not a book for the faint-hearted, since the graphic descriptions of real and imagined sex crimes can sometimes make for difficult reading. Like a prosecutor preparing for a case, Naiman uses this mass of evidence to make a dense argument for the centrality of sex to fears about the future of the revolution... Nowhere has [the New Economic Policy] been depicted in such dark terms as in this book. -- Lynn Mally, Europe-Asia Studies Naiman has written an original, thought-provoking, and well-researched book that is destined to become a classic study of the role of sex, crime, and disease in the ideological discourse that took place in the first decade of Soviet power... Few can deny the insightful, ground-breaking quality of Sex in Public. -- Ronald D. LeBlanc, Slavic and East European Journal This is a big book--large in its scope and ambitions. Naiman offers a bold reassessment of early Soviet ideology... This is not a book for the faint-hearted, since the graphic descriptions of real and imagined sex crimes can sometimes make for difficult reading. Like a prosecutor preparing for a case, Naiman uses this mass of evidence to make a dense argument for the centrality of sex to fears about the future of the revolution... Nowhere has [the New Economic Policy] been depicted in such dark terms as in this book. -- Lynn Mally, Europe-Asia Studies Naiman has written an original, thought-provoking, and well-researched book that is destined to become a classic study of the role of sex, crime, and disease in the ideological discourse that took place in the first decade of Soviet power... Few can deny the insightful, ground-breaking quality of Sex in Public. -- Ronald D. LeBlanc Slavic and East European Journal This is a big book--large in its scope and ambitions. Naiman offers a bold reassessment of early Soviet ideology... This is not a book for the faint-hearted, since the graphic descriptions of real and imagined sex crimes can sometimes make for difficult reading. Like a prosecutor preparing for a case, Naiman uses this mass of evidence to make a dense argument for the centrality of sex to fears about the future of the revolution... Nowhere has [the New Economic Policy] been depicted in such dark terms as in this book. -- Lynn Mally Europe-Asia Studies Author InformationEric Naiman is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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